On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote: <snip> > Have a look at the programming language shoot- > out: >> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ >> Don't jump to conclusions: >> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/dont-jump-to-conclusions.php >> [By the way, does anyone know why the number of languages in the shootout > seems to have dropped drastically?] Probably related to this: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/glvgk/lua_jit_pypy_tracemonkey_python_27_jruby_and/ Cheers, Chris